you can not tell me the nfl is not rigged

You are correct, I cannot tell you how the NFL is not rigged. I will gladly pay anyone $1000 if they can logically explain how the 4th down play to Addison was not pass interference. Even the ref that through the flag knew it was PI.

That was one of the most blatant officiating fuck ups I have ever seen 

You can't give them 7 points. The lost timeouts. You have to make the most of opportunities beyond field goals. They gotta get out of their own way 

@"Vikergirl" said: You can't give them 7 points. The lost timeouts. You have to make the most of opportunities beyond field goals. They gotta get out of their own way 

@"Viking1987" said:

@"Vikergirl" said: You can't give them 7 points. The lost timeouts. You have to make the most of opportunities beyond field goals. They gotta get out of their own way 

yea get outa your own  way  yes. but that was beyond bad officialting

@"Vikergirl" said:

@"Viking1987" said:

@"Vikergirl" said: You can't give them 7 points. The lost timeouts. You have to make the most of opportunities beyond field goals. They gotta get out of their own way 

yea get outa your own  way  yes. but that was beyond bad officialting

Yeah bad officiating is going to continue to happen and nothing is going to be done about it 

Bad officiating can be bad officiating without being part of some ridiculous conspiracy theory.

This team is just plain bad. The mental errors, the blown coverages, dropped balls, the turnover epidemic, poor game and clock management by the Head Coach week after week. You can point to bad officiating calls in every game, but this team is it's own worst enemy right now with no hope in sight for this season. Time to tear it down and start selling off any assets you won't be able to keep including Cousins if the right offer comes along. 

@"MaroonBells" said: Bad officiating can be bad officiating without being part of some ridiculous conspiracy theory.

I think Cousins will gladly waive his no-trade clause. Think about it, the way things are going, the best outlook for him would be a commentator in a booth for high school football

@"FLVike" said: I think Cousins will gladly waive his no-trade clause. Think about it, the way things are going, the best outlook for him would be a commentator in a booth for high school football

At this point, the only thing that could conceivably change things would be for millions of people to stop watching and gambling when it comes to the NFL. 
But they won’t!

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: Bad officiating can be bad officiating without being part of some ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Yes. And do sometimes stars/teams get some calls? I won't discount it. If you hadn't brushed your teeth well enough and Tom Brady got a whiff, you'd get a penalty. But conspiracy? Too much to lose. 

@"medaille" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: Bad officiating can be bad officiating without being part of some ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Yes. And do sometimes stars/teams get some calls? I won't discount it. If you hadn't brushed your teeth well enough and Tom Brady got a whiff, you'd get a penalty. But conspiracy? Too much to lose. 

What would be the logical non-conspiracy reason why “stars/teams get the calls”?  Are the refs just too star-struck to be objective?

Right now, the NFL is loving having Kelce and Mahomes as the faces of the league. All the people watching football that didn't three weeks ago is a lot of revenue.I don't think the NFL is pushing hard for them to win., But if its close, well let's not piss off the new fan base.
Now, 2009. If anyone can watch the nfccg and explain that the fix wasn't in, I would love to hear it.

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"medaille" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: Bad officiating can be bad officiating without being part of some ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Yes. And do sometimes stars/teams get some calls? I won't discount it. If you hadn't brushed your teeth well enough and Tom Brady got a whiff, you'd get a penalty. But conspiracy? Too much to lose. 

What would be the logical non-conspiracy reason why “stars/teams get the calls”?  Are the refs just too star-struck to be objective?

I don't know if they're star struck, possibly, probably, but celebrity QBs do seem to get more calls. It's not a conspiracy. It's just humans being human. I think one day human refs will be eliminated from the game. 

@"medaille" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"medaille" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: Bad officiating can be bad officiating without being part of some ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Yes. And do sometimes stars/teams get some calls? I won't discount it. If you hadn't brushed your teeth well enough and Tom Brady got a whiff, you'd get a penalty. But conspiracy? Too much to lose. 

What would be the logical non-conspiracy reason why “stars/teams get the calls”?  Are the refs just too star-struck to be objective?

I don't know if they're star struck, possibly, probably, but celebrity QBs do seem to get more calls. It's not a conspiracy. It's just humans being human. I think one day human refs will be eliminated from the game. 

I guess you’re going to have to explain to me how “humans being
human” leads to “stars” and the “storyline teams” getting more beneficial
calls for me to think that is any more plausible than they’re choosing to make calls
because they are biased. 

Fucking over the Vikings seems to be a lifelong, time honored tradition… nothing really new this season! 

Wake me up when the Vikings are good enough, bad officiating won't make a difference!

The NFL must be some kinda mafia family.  Does a new owner have to take an oath of silence, the so-called omerta?  No one has ever come out with a tell-all confession of how the NFL has deliberately rigged games for 50 years.  Like the mafia, you break omerta, you die. 

I have seen a vial stolen from a secret vault in an undisclosed location which contains actual drops of blood from Zygmunt and Mark's initiation ceremony where they took the blood oath and joined the conspiracy.

The sucky part is, the conspiracy keeps rigging it for other teams and fucking the Vikings.  If I were the Wilfs I'd say....